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- From: manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: How to format an AMIGA partition as IBM partition?
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 01:16:28 GMT
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- On 25-Jan-96 13:31:22, Steve L. Edford (sledford@iglou.iglou.com) wrote to All
- () about Re: How to format an AMIGA partition as IBM partition?
- (<DLqLGA.D9@iglou.com>):
-
- Hi Steve
-
- >manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA) writes:
-
- >>Hi everybody
-
- >>I have a 99MB partition on my 1 GIG Quantum Fireball SCSI HD which I want to
- >>use as an IBM partition for the EMPLANT e386dx or A2386AT bridgeboard or
- >>PC-Task.
-
-
- >>Someone told me do format the partition under AMIGA OS using a mountlist
- >>(CrossDos.filesystem).
- >>But how can I do this?
-
-
- > You can do this without having to format the partition from the Amiga
- >side. In HDToolBox, set the FileSystem to "Custom FileSystem", then
- >select the "Change FileSystem" button. The window that opens should have
- >in the lower left corner three string gadgets as follows:
-
- > Identifier:
-
- > Mask:
-
- > Max Transfer:
-
- >The values that I am using with PC-Task 3.1 are:
-
- > Identifier == 0x4d534800
-
- > Mask == 0x7ffffffe
-
- > MaxTransfer == 0xffffff
-
- Will this also work with PCTASK 2.x? I don't have 3.1 :-)
-
-
- >Of these, the most important is the Identifier. PC-Task will recognize
- >this as a PC disk. This comes from the PC-Task manual.
-
- > After this, you should be able to boot from an MSDOS floppy with
- >PC-Task and FDisk and format the partition under MSDOS.
-
- > If you plan on accessing this partition later with CrossDOS, you should
- >make it Mount at bootup in HDToolBox. If not, you can turn off the
- >automount feature and save a bit of memory.
-
- > There is a utility that came with the PC-Task 3.1 update patch called
- >"PCTCrossMount" that will create a mountlist entry for your PC partition
- >using CrossDOS. That's how I did it and it worked fine.
-
- > Well, I hope this is of some help. Good luck with it.
-
- Thx for the tips and info.
-
- --
- Bye Manou
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